California Ordered to Address Prison Over-Crowding

Here’s a link to a CBC reporton a U.S. Supreme Court decision that will compell California to release or transfer to county facilities over 30,000 inmates to alleviate gross over-crowding that, the majority of the court said, is a violation of the prisoners’ constitutional rights because of the danger it poses to their physical and mental well-being.

With the Harper government committed to expanding existing prisons and building new ones as part of its “tough on crime” agenda, will a similar legal action be launched here at some point I wonder? No matter how you slice it, incarcerating people is bloody expensive. One estimate I’ve seen is that it costs $80,000 a year to house an inmate.

But that’s the Conservative mindset. Tens of billions for the military, police, court systems and prisons. Pennies for progressive social measures to try to head off problems like poverty, homelessness, mental illness, addiction and lack of education and workplace training before they manifest into criminal behaviour that causes untold hardship for victims and perpetrators alike.

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2 thoughts on “California Ordered to Address Prison Over-Crowding”

So, in the mean time, hide yo kids and hide yo wife, cause they’ll be raping errbody up in here.

The most important social measure is to instill a love for Jesus in our childrens heart. Not experimental government programs. Heck, it worked before, till the lefty hipsters came and jacked it all up with their intro-biology non-credit course logic.

People who boldly abuse others for no good reason should be locked away from society. Even if it is bloody expensive.